Achille Variati | |
Office: | Mayor of Vicenza |
Term Start: | 12 July 1990[1] |
Term End: | 8 May 1995 |
Predecessor: | Antonio Corazzin |
Successor: | Marino Quaresimin |
Term Start2: | 29 April 2008 |
Term End2: | 13 June 2018 |
Predecessor2: | Enrico Hüllweck |
Successor2: | Francesco Rucco |
Office3: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start3: | 13 October 2022 |
Constituency3: | North-East Italy |
Birth Date: | 1953 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Vicenza, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Alma Mater: | University of Padua |
Occupation: | Politician |
Achille Variati (Vicenza, 19 January 1953) is an Italian politician and former Mayor of Vicenza.
A long-time member of Christian Democracy, he was elected to the municipal council of Vicenza in 1980 and then re-elected in 1985 and 1990, when he became city Mayor. After the disbandment of Christian Democracy, he joined the Italian People's Party and later Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy and the Democratic Party.[2]
Elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1995, 2000 and 2005, he was President of the group of the Democratic Party since the beginning of 2007, almost eight months before the party was founded. He was elected Mayor of Vicenza in 2008[3] and re-elected in 2013.[4]